UCL Institute of Archaeology

Participation in conservation of the historic environment

This research seeks to critique both the traditional “material based approach” of Western conservation and its transition to “values based approaches”. In doing so it seeks to reconceptualise conservation with a further shift towards a “peoples based approach” to conserving culture in the historic environment. This utilises a participatory process that focuses on enhancing links between a community and its cultural heritage. Hinemihi, the Maori meeting house at Clandon Park, UK, provides a key case study for this research.

Related outputs

• Sully, D., & Raymond, R. (forthcoming) Being with Hinemihi – Memories and Contemporary Negotiations in UK Maori & Polynesian Diaspora.
• Sully, D. & Cardoso, I. (forthcoming) Painting Hinemihi by Numbers.
• Sully, D. (forthcoming) “Resources: Conservation” in C. McCarthy (ed.) Volume 4: Museum Practice: Critical Debates in the Museum Sector. Part of 5 volume Blackwell series; International handbooks of museum studies
• Sully, D. (forthcoming) “Conserving the Cobbe Collectors”. in The Cobbe Museum Collection. Ed. Arthur Macgregor (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
• Sully, D. 2007 (ed.) Decolonising Conservation: Caring for Maori Meeting Houses Outside New Zealand University College London, Institute of Archaeology Publications. Critical Perspectives on Cultural Heritage Series. Left Coast Press Walnut Creek, California

Funding

• Various funding sources including the National Trust